Original fantasy worldbuilding
The Living Archive
A growing archive for a fantasy world in which magic is not cast by command, but studied through the structures and processes already present in the world.
The world
Magic as a field of study
Patterncraft is the study and alteration of existing processes. A healer studies anatomy. A Greenworker studies plants. A practitioner cannot simply demand that reality change; they first have to understand what they are trying to influence and what that thing is capable of becoming.
The world around Patterncraft is still growing. This archive collects its people, ideas, places and records as they are developed.
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Archive status
Built to grow
The Living Archive begins small on purpose. New people, places, documents and branches of Patterncraft can be added as the setting develops, without requiring the entire world to be decided in advance.